Walter Bagehot: “No feeling could seem more childish than the enthusiasm of the English at the marriage of the Prince of Wales.”

In early society, originality in life was forbidden and repressed by the fixed rule of life.

We have thus a whole group of ancient republics of non-Aryan race, and one which, being more ancient than the classical republics, could not have borrowed from or imitated them.

The United States could not have become monarchical, even if the Constitutional Convention had decreed it, even if the component States had ratified it.

The progress of the military art is the most conspicuous, I was about to say the most SHOWY, fact in human history.